Being knocked down by the Heavenly Dao while ascending

Uncle Yu had a bad look on his face and stood in front of Pang Yuan.
Pang Yuan didn't pay attention to him. He turned his gaze to Pei Mingyan who followed him out, with a gentle expression and concerned eyes.

Pei Mingyan was startled immediately. He had a bad feeling.
"Cough cough...ah, why does my head suddenly hurt so much, Uncle Yu, my broken body can't stand not sleeping for a whole night, I'm going to go back and rest first." Pei Mingyan stroked his forehead, his expression dull, mumbling and wailing.

Uncle Yu's expression eased a little. "Go back and have a good rest. If you need anything, you can tell me and I will send it to you."

"Got it. Thank you, Uncle Yu."
Pei Mingyan couldn't help but sigh: Just because he could save the dean, even if it was only temporary, he immediately became popular. Look at the change in Uncle Yu's attitude.

He passed by Pang Yuan and caught a glimpse of the man standing next to Pang Yuan from the corner of his eye. He looked unfamiliar. Well, it was normal to be unfamiliar, as he didn't know many of them.

But looking at that man's mental state, it can almost be confirmed that he is not from the academy.
He seemed to have experienced something tragic. He looked particularly thin and pale in his white clothes with long sleeves.
He lowered his eyes, holding a pipa in his arms, looking somewhat pitiful.

lute?!
Pei Mingyan immediately remembered that the vice-president of Yongshan Academy was a man holding a pipa. He was thin and spoke softly, more like a woman.
But why did the deputy dean come back at this time?

No, if he was really the deputy dean Shui Changhen, why would he hide behind Pang Yuan so cowardly?
Although he was doubtful, he still passed by and went towards the boat.

I only heard Uncle Yu ask, "Why are you back?"

Pang Yuan pointed at the man in white beside him and said, "I met him on the way to find Fang Qing."

Uncle Yu frowned and looked at the thin young man for a long time, then gestured towards the house, asking everyone to relax their guard.
"Who is he?"

Pang Yuan patted the man in white on the shoulder. The man in white took a step forward and said, "My name is Qianshui, and I'm an orphan..."

Pei Mingyan did not hear the rest of the words. He got on the small boat, carefully avoided Xiaokong who lived in front of the waterfall, and slipped back to his own courtyard.

The courtyard is still maintaining the illusion they had created when they left yesterday. The scene is in a mess, with fishing nets thrown at the gate of the courtyard and the scoop net still sticking in the water by the lake, as if something went wrong while catching fish.

Pei Mingyan grabbed the fishing net, and found a lively fish trapped in it. He released the fish, scattered corn for the chickens, ducks and geese, moved tables and chairs to the lakeside under the trees, and brewed a pot of tea.

Just when he was wondering whether he should pretend to be cool and fan himself with a goose feather fan, the person he was waiting for finally arrived.

Pei Mingyan stood up first and greeted the other party: "Hi, Manager Pang, I knew you would come to see me. I haven't thanked you for saving my life last time."
Pei Mingyan poured him a cup of tea and handed it to him, "Come on, you must be tired after walking for so long, have some tea."

Pang Yuan didn't answer. He stood there staring at him for a long time, and suddenly knelt down with a plop.

Pei Mingyan's forehead began to twitch, but he did not give up and continued to act.
He stepped back a few steps in fear, put the cup down on the table, and rushed to help Pang Yuan, saying, "Manager Pang, what are you doing?"

Pang Yuan did not stand up, but fell to the ground and called out, "Young Master!"

"Um... well... that... although I'm very embarrassed, I still have to say that you're kneeling to the wrong person."
Pei Mingyan let go of his hand, avoided the direction where Pang Yuan was kneeling, went back to the table, picked up the teacup and took a sip, "Although I am the eldest, I am actually the third child in the family. I became the eldest after the first two brothers passed away. But I think about it, with the status of my family, there is no way I can recognize you. Not to mention you calling me the eldest young master."
He put down the teacup, "But I still want to thank you. If you hadn't recognized the wrong person, I would have died at the hands of Qingyun and his men last time."

"Master." Pang Yuan raised his head, his eyes helpless, "Please stop joking. You don't need my help. I am the Mei family's informant in the academy. The head of the family and the elders calculated that the academy was doomed. After knowing that you were here, they asked me to take you away from here."

Pei Mingyan secretly pinched his arm a few times, tears welling up in his eyes, "Manager Pang, thank you, your calling me Young Master finally made me feel cared for. Even though you just mistook me for Young Master Mei, this is the honor of my life! Who in the Mei family doesn't want to be Young Master Mei." Pei Mingyan sniffed, his face full of emotion, "Please call me that a few more times, no one will call me that anymore."

Pang Yuan looked embarrassed. He stared at Pei Mingyan and said, "Young Master, please stop making trouble. The head of the family said that you have indeed entered the academy. You are the only newcomer in the academy recently."

Pei Mingyan rubbed his eyes, and his eye sockets suddenly became redder. "But I'm definitely not like that. How could the eldest son of the Mei family live such a poor life, feeding chickens and ducks and farming? This is impossible."

Pang Yuan looked around, and saw the atmosphere of a farmyard. If it was really Young Master Mei, he would be as spoiled as the legend said, and everything from food, clothing, housing, transportation, food, clothing, and sleep would be top-notch, and he would not use anything inferior. Raising ducks? He couldn't imagine it.

Pei Mingyan said disgustingly: "It's not that I can't be Young Master Mei. As long as I'm in the academy, you can treat me as Young Master Mei. But you can't do that outside. If the master of the family finds out that I'm pretending to be the young master, he will skin me alive."

Pang Yuan was successfully disgusted.
He looked at Pei Mingyan, who seemed about to cry, and whose eyes were filled with expectation as she waited for him to call her Young Master Mei. He couldn't help but wonder: Did he really recognize the wrong person?
But there must be no problem with the message.

He thought about it again and realized that Pei Mingyan was indeed the only one who had come to the academy recently.

No! There is also Qianshui!
Qianshui... That's right! How can an ordinary pipa player play a song that can soothe the soul?
How come he only understands such a simple truth now!
Pang Yuan suddenly stood up and disappeared on the spot.

Pei Mingyan pretended to be serious and waved his hand ostentatiously, saying, "Manager Pang! Welcome to have tea! Remember to call me Master Mei next time~"

After everyone left, Pei Mingyan got goosebumps all over his body and his smile gradually disappeared.
Mei family informant? How is that possible?

In the original book, the head of the Mei family, who was also his father, doted on him to the point of wanting the stars and the moon.
He traveled through time just in time for Mei Shanxue's birth, so he could say that except for the period when he was a fetus, his father did everything without hiding anything from him.
If he hadn't used the excuse that he was going to ascend to heaven a long time ago, he would have been the official head of the Mei family and the youngest head of the family in history.
There was nothing he didn't know about the Mei family's information. On the surface, things were still handled by his father, but in fact, many things were handled secretly by him.

How many informants did the Mei family have? So, who was trying to impersonate the Mei family and trick him out?

He blinked, looked up at the sky, and thought to himself: If it really is you, we are really doomed.

He exhaled a breath of foul air, pretending nothing had happened. As a reward, he scattered food to the "extras", and then went back to the tree to catch up on his sleep. He slept until the evening.
The sky is grey and it looks like it's going to rain.

Xiaokong rushed in holding an umbrella, "Fortune teller! This is bad!"

Pei Mingyan lay on the tree and watched Xiaokong rush into the house to look for someone. When he saw that there was no one there, he ran around the lake.
Finally, Xiaokong curled his lips and looked with disdain towards the only place where people could still hide - the goose pen.

Pei Mingyan built nests for the chickens, ducks and geese, but the big white geese were too aggressive and would peck at the chicks and ducklings, so the big white geese had a separate nest, which was like a cowshed, but not that high.

Seeing that Xiaokong was going to join the circle to find him, Pei Mingyan was puzzled: His acting was so successful and down-to-earth? Could he even sleep with a goose?

"Ahem..." Pei Mingyan coughed twice to remind him, and then yawned, "Xiao Kong, why are you here?" He looked at the umbrella he was holding, "Give me an umbrella? How do you know I don't have one?"

"Why did you run up the tree! Come down quickly, something big has happened!" Xiao Kong turned around and shouted at him, and it looked like he even wanted to throw the umbrella directly at his head.

Pei Mingyan yawned again, "What happened? Did the sky fall?"

"The master is awake!"

"Oh." Pei Mingyan jumped down from the tree and straightened his clothes. "And then?"

Xiao Kong stuffed the umbrella into Pei Mingyan's hand and said, "So take the umbrella and run!"

"Huh?..." Pei Mingyan was confused.

Xiao Kong didn't answer, but dragged him out, saying as he ran: "There is a small path at the back of the mountain. You will meet Ming Hai Beast when you go out. Ming Hai Beast only recognizes the orders of the academy master. I don't know if the jade pendant is still useful. But Ming Hai Beast gave me a gift, which is this umbrella. You take the umbrella and let him take you away!"

Pei Mingyan stopped and pushed away Xiaokong's hand that was pulling his arm, "Wait a minute, why should I run away when the dean wakes up?"

Xiao Kong said angrily: "Why didn't you tell me you were going to the main peak!"

"Uh..." Pei Mingyan changed the subject, "That's not the point. Tell me why I ran away first."

Xiao Kong sighed and said, "I haven't seen the dean for a day. When I went there just now, I only knew that there was suddenly a deputy dean in the hospital, with the same status as the dean. The dean has always been in poor health and rarely takes care of things, so it's like we have a new dean."

"Wait, wait, wait a minute!" Pei Mingyan interrupted Xiaokong's sadness, "Did your dean say that personally?"

Xiao Kong sniffed. "The dean personally introduced me to him, holding my hand. He said, 'Xiao Kong, he will be the vice dean of the academy from now on. I'm usually not here, so you have to listen to him.' What does he mean he's not here?! I asked Aunt Tang, and Aunt Tang said that the dean was not in good health, so he asked the vice dean to take care of things."

"Uh..." Don't you think your dean's behavior is a bit hasty?
Pei Mingyan had a deeper understanding of the dean's ability of mental suggestion, oh no, it should be said that his brainwashing ability. Those who were suggested would not even have the most basic doubts.

He was wrong. This dean was not a good person at all. He just kept a bunch of puppet-like tools. He kept these people alive in name, but in fact, these people had lost most of their self. How could they be considered alive?

"Well...so why should I run?" Pei Mingyan asked.

Xiao Kong looked like he was idiot. "I've already told you that you're a liar, so why don't you just lie to the dean? Why are you curing the dean's illness? Now you're getting yourself into trouble!"

"Hey, um, who said I was a liar? The Mei family fortune tellers are truly talented and knowledgeable. It's okay to scold me. My skills are indeed not good, but I did stabilize the dean's condition."

Xiao Kong looked like he was telling her to just make it up, "The deputy dean said it all. The talisman you made for the dean is indeed useful, but it's very addictive. You just want to control the dean! You have bad intentions!"

"…………" Pei Mingyan was speechless for a moment. This was not a one-time cure, so there must be follow-up treatment, and even taking medicine requires a course of treatment.
"So, your dean believes it?"

Xiao Kong shook his head. "I don't know. The dean didn't say anything, and Uncle Yu didn't say anything either. I don't know whether they believed it or not. But they didn't refute it, so they must have believed it, right? Anyway, whether they believed it or not, the deputy dean has sent people to arrest you for interrogation."

Pei Mingyan nodded, "I think I can still confront him face to face."

Xiao Kong hit him with a punch, "You still don't understand after all I've said! Aunt Tang doesn't protect you, Uncle Yu doesn't say anything, the Dean is also silent, only Manager Pang and Manager Yao can still talk. Manager Yao has been offended by you, and Manager Pang supports the deputy Dean. You still have a shitty chance to confront him!"

"But I am wronged. Isn't your dean a good man? How could he watch me being wronged like this?" Pei Mingyan said.

Xiao Kong hesitated for a rare moment, "The dean is a good person...but..."

Pei Mingyan patted Xiaokong on the shoulder and told him to look forward, "No buts."

Xiaokong looked up and saw Uncle Yu standing about ten feet away, waiting for them.

(End of this chapter)